Zohran Mamdani became New York City's first socialist mayor and the Left treated it like a revolution.
They were right – and the revolution has been quietly recruiting members since they were still in diapers.
Fox News just uncovered what the DSA has been building inside American daycares to make it all happen.
Trying to indoctrinate kids in socialism isn’t a new idea.
Socialist Sunday Schools operated in more than 100 schools across 20 American states between 1900 and 1920 – teaching children to recite a "Socialist Pledge" and calling them "little soldiers for socialism."
Cold War Americans were warned this was exactly how it starts.
That movement faded.
The DSA just revived it.
In 2016, New York City's DSA chapter launched a Socialist Sunday School for children ages 2 to 6. Red Sprouts – the program running today – teaches activists how to bring politically charged childcare to protests and organizing events.
In October 2026, the NYC-DSA ran a Red Sprouts training session showing members how to run what they openly call "resistance-driven childcare" – built around "radical storytelling," "cooperative games," and age-calibrated lessons in socialist politics.
For children as young as 2.
Alleigh Marré, leader of the American Parents Coalition, has been sounding the alarm.
She told Fox News Digital the DSA understands that if you can teach a child socialism before he forms his own worldview, "that's going to stick with kids for a lifetime."
Young children absorb ideology the same way they absorb language – there is no filter at age 2.
The DSA's National Political Education Committee has spent years teaching members to treat childcare itself as a specifically socialist activity – their words: "from a socialist perspective."
By 2025, the committee had drawn up a formal "Socialist Sprouts" curriculum – a structured program aimed at children, parents, and caregivers throughout the organization.
The Cleveland DSA chapter created a children's coloring book to help kids learn, in their own words, "what we work on at DSA."
New York City's "Comrades With Kids" group handed out DSA-themed coloring pages at a Zohran for Parents event in September 2025.
"There's this really concerted effort to instill an ideology in really, really young children, rather than teaching kids how to think," Marré told Fox News Digital.
This is a decade-long, deliberate infrastructure campaign – and the DSA's 2023 national convention made it official, adopting an amendment to prioritize recruiting socialist school board candidates specifically to reach parents.
The Los Angeles chapter built its own Public Education Committee around expanding DSA influence over school boards – backing candidates, working with teachers unions, and pushing the Green New Deal.
While most Americans were focused on who controlled Congress Tuesday, the DSA was completing something that hadn't happened in over 100 years.
Six DSA-backed candidates won seats in the House of Representatives.
That grew the DSA's congressional presence fourfold overnight.
Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez won in New York – meaning three DSA members, including AOC, will now represent parts of New York City alone in Congress.
Melat Kiros won in Colorado after defeating Diana DeGette, a 15-term Democratic incumbent and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Three more DSA wins followed in California, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
DSA-backed positions prevailed on 23 ballot measures nationwide.
Washington state voters specifically rejected a proposal to restore expanded parental rights in public schools.
The DSA's own National Electoral Commission called it a record – "numbers we have not seen in over a hundred years in socialist electoral activity."
A movement that is literally training 2-year-olds to absorb socialist ideology now has six new members of Congress who describe themselves as "socialist organizers first, and legislators second."
Those are their own words.
The socialists who ran this same playbook between 1900 and 1920 ultimately failed – in part because they had no political power to protect the pipeline they were building.
The DSA in 2026 has New York City's mayor, six new members of Congress, 23 ballot measure wins, and a coloring book waiting at daycare.
They are running the same play their predecessors ran a century ago.
This time they have the infrastructure to protect it.
Sources:
- Elaine Mallon, "From 'Red Sprouts' to school board races, DSA's years-long effort to reach children gains momentum," Fox News Digital, November 8, 2026.
- Michael Schwartz, "Midterms and the socialism of the DSA: Know what's on the ballot," Human Events, September 29, 2026.
- "Democratic Socialists of America expand influence after primary wins," Washington Examiner, June 15, 2026.
- "DSA-backed candidates poised to expand influence on Capitol Hill as Democrats eye majority," Fox affiliate reporting, November 3, 2026.
